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I have a Magnemite I plan to train in special attack and hp only, with the remaining stat in special defense. I gave it 100 vitamins in SA and HP. Using Pokerus and Macho Brace, how many Whismur/Spinda do I need to kill to max out the respective stats? I tried calculating this myself but I'm terrible at math...

I have a Magnemite I plan to train in special attack and hp only, with the remaining stat in special defense. I gave it 100 vitamins in SA and HP. Using Pokerus and Macho Brace, how many Whismur/Spinda do I need to kill to max out the respective stats? I tried calculating this myself but I'm terrible at math...

I know its based on luck, but how many eggs do you usually have to hatch until you get a triple flawless. I've hatched over 250 Absol eggs and haven't got one yet, I've got a flawless HP/Spd Absol (F, w/Everstone) and flawless Atk/Spd Absol(M) in the Daycare. Am I doing something wrong?

The odds of hatching a triple-flawless where both parents are double flawless in desired stats is like 1:160 and the odds increase when at least one of the parents is triple-flawless at least, which is often why I try to breed triple-flawless IVs on certain chain pokemon. When both parents have the desired triple-flawless stats, the odds are 1:20 that an offspring will have the same desired triple-flawless stats. 250 hatches seems about right as it is often based on luck. Sometimes I get the desired triple-flawless stats almost immediately, sometimes never as was recently the case when I was chain-breeding hp/sp.atk/speed from feraligatr(water1/monster) to surskit(water1/bug) as I believe it took me over 300 hatches until I got a male with them. Intriguingly from that male surskit to get a modest yanma with flawless hp/sp.atk/speed with speed boost, it took me less than 15 hatches until I got one. Others I had trouble breeding included growlithe, but I was also trying to get one with the intimidate ability. Recently in re-breeding, I got one in just the first batch of eggs as flawless hp/attack/speed and wonderfully outstanding as well, and have so far only EV trained it in 252 attack and will raise it to level 47 so it can learn flare drive in D/P before I evolve it.

Breeding for D/P pokemon can indeed be addictive so I've decided to take a break and return to battle factory so I can hopefully finally get this last gold symbol I need. Sometimes taking a break does indeed work but that can also be luck as well. April 22 is still a long ways away so I'm definitely in no hurry.

i know this isn't nearly as good as any of the Heracross Nevada bred recently, but i recently got a wonderfully outstanding, triple flawless that I'm almost 100% happy with. These are the winning IVs:
Adamant- female
31- hp
29- atk
31- def
29- sp atk
2- sp def (WHY couldn't they have been the other way?!?)
31- spd

i figure this bad boy (or girl i suppose) will make quite a potent CBer, Endrevver, and i have a Jolly quite impressive Heracross that I was going to make a SDer, but may have to try this one out in that position as well. Recent breedings have gone quite well, and I'm down to only a relatively small group of Pokemon left to breed. 32 in all remain, once i get their stats, i'll go to the BF to work on move tutors i may need to do.

can anyone answer exactly how IVs are passed? the more i read the more variation i see in responses. some say that they are randomly inherited from the parent, anywhere from 1-3 IVs, generally 2 from one parent and one from the other.

the other predominant theory that i'm seeing floating around is that for each stat, there is a 25% chance that it will come from the mother, 25% from the father (ditto/genderless pokemon will assume the roles of mothers and fathers as well), and 50% of the time the IV is random.

recently i saw suggested a combination of the two: stating that the 25/25/50 was true, AND that the maximum number of IVs that could be passed would be 3.

In the List of who gives what it says that Pidgey and Rattata both gife 1 point in speed, so does that mean that the grasses around Pallet are a 'good' place to EV-Train for speed ?

Or is this a bad place cause of the low lvl's

(Oh, I'm Planning on training a lvl 5 Pokémon)

Yes it is perfect for speed since you won't run into other unwanted EVs there, and ideal for lowest level pokemon that need the speed EVs. Just be sure to keep track. Other good places for speed is diglett's cave for higher levels, and altering cave in emerald and face only zubats.

Originally Posted by KingBattlus

can anyone answer exactly how IVs are passed? the more i read the more variation i see in responses. some say that they are randomly inherited from the parent, anywhere from 1-3 IVs, generally 2 from one parent and one from the other.

the other predominant theory that i'm seeing floating around is that for each stat, there is a 25% chance that it will come from the mother, 25% from the father (ditto/genderless pokemon will assume the roles of mothers and fathers as well), and 50% of the time the IV is random.

recently i saw suggested a combination of the two: stating that the 25/25/50 was true, AND that the maximum number of IVs that could be passed would be 3.

any answers to how exactly the IVs are passed would be appreciated.

It should be 3, at least one from one parent and 2 from the other, which is often why I try to get it so both parents can have the same desireable IVs so it increases the chances its offsprings get them.

One stat in particular that seems to be much more stubborn than others is HP, even when both parents have that stat.

keep that one for possible sweeping, but continue resetting for a bold one, IMO.

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Meh, though I got a wonderfully outstanding Staryu, it had a crappy special attack IV, but I'll list its other IV's as well:

Nature: Timid
HP: 30
ATK: 31
DEF: 31
SPD: 31
SP.ATK: 4
SP.DEF 31

I don't know, but I plan on using this for the Battle Palace (I don't want moveset for it, I know it). Should I use this?

As much as it is at or near flawless in all other stats, I would not use it as starmie needs all the special attack it can get. I not too long ago hatched an impish pineco that was quadruple-flawless in attack/speed/defense/sp.def, 30 in sp.atk & about 15 in HP and I'm rather hesitant about training it since its HP seems to suffer.

From my previous post, here are 3 more excellent common chain-breeders:

Meh, though I got a wonderfully outstanding Staryu, it had a crappy special attack IV, but I'll list its other IV's as well:

Nature: Timid
HP: 30
ATK: 31
DEF: 31
SPD: 31
SP.ATK: 4
SP.DEF 31

I don't know, but I plan on using this for the Battle Palace (I don't want moveset for it, I know it). Should I use this?

Wow, if only its Atk and SAtk were switched around. Unfortunately, you'll hardly do anything when your Max SAtk is only 272.
You should use it to breed for another Staryu, and hopefully you'll have a better chance of passing down the excellent Spd.

I caught a Timid staryu, I then evolved it into starmie, and taught it surf,ice beam, thunderbolt and recover. Then I battled A lot of spinda, I mean alot but I don't know how many. Now it is at level 35 I found a IV calculater.

1) Will I have to start obver and count how many spinda I battle?
2) Will the IV calculator be accurate enough at level 35 or should I train it up some more.

Thats how i do them on a piece of paper.
(just some advice of a easy way i do it)

Well, how I keep track of EV's is...based on the PP's of the movesets.

For example, I take a Starmie, and it knows Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Surf, and Psychic. First, I give it 10 Calciums, which is 100 EV's, in other words. Then I calculate how much EV's I'll gain while using the Macho Brace.